Re: Bigger torque ... ep generator MK 2

["Steven E. Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>]

This is a far better scenario John. Rather than make a ruling (I'm not
running, I don't have to *thhhpptt*) lets ask some questions?

Could you bring everything back into your body as a big eep pool? Don't
think so. An eep pool doesn't really exist. Its a game mechanism for
keeping track of experience so that you can improve yourself.

Could you bring it over as physical stats? Nope, your leaving that body
behind... now keeping that new body with its cool physical attributes is
certainly do able and _DOES_ increase your effective rating by about 80.
That's a soul swapping discussion and not really transmog or eep
generation as you can only get that upgrade once (as it gets left behind
at the next body hop).

Can you bring it over in the form of skills/spells? This is, IMNSHO, the
real question. Its a rank 16 spell and certainly _MAY_ be capable of
giving someone skills and knowledge without having to waste time
learning it. An argument can certainly be made that physical skills are
part body memory and you'd lose those during a body swap (again, a body
swap discussion).

We've done similar things in the past. I transmogged a whale into a
shadow walker and then mutate that shadow walker in desirable ways so
that we could all have "seen" my new creation and could hence transmog
directly into a generation 2 (or 3) shadow walker+. We stuck some guys
soul into a whale once and transmogged him to get the eeops to create a
magic item. Some of this stuff is on the shady side of the line perhaps.
Not sure because I didn't have to make the rulings :)

-Steve


>
> Hmmm ... gotta be a bit more buff for this one:
>
> (Water mage with Changings 16 and Necromancy 16 ... potentially a
variant
> with Necromancy up to whatever spell puts a soul in storage or takes a
> soul out of storage ... whichever is cheaper
>
> In this case, it may be able to be done at a lower rating if an earth
> mage performs the first soul swap ... lower still if the transmog is
> performed by another party, as well)
>
> Whip out soul banish (R16 necro) on a Gargoyle, or other similarly
buff
> critter (don't remember if a gargoyle will be exceptionally resistant)
>
> (potentially a second 10 lb rock to yank out the soul of the "victim"
in
> place of destroying it)
>
> Whip out my handy-dandy shadow servant and a standard-issue 10 pound
rock.
>
> With a clever assortment of defers, positioning, and my shadow servant
> keeping my skull from cracking on impact with said 10 pound rock, I
pop my
> soul into the big critter
>
> I then rip off a transmogrify into a normal player race, making sure
I've
> bought back my spell groups.
>
> I then pop myself back into MY body via my handy-dandy 10 pound rock.
>
> Did I just go up about 80 ratings?
>